Joubert had too few competitions including the Nationals and Euro, both suspects of inflation. I chose to put Kozuka ahead of Gachinski because of the NAT and Euro also.

TES fluctuate much for most and are hard to order, I would group them into

1) Chan, Fernandez, Hanyu

2) Gachinski, Song, Takahashi,

3) Kozuka, Rippon, Abbott, Joubert, Brezina,

4) Verner, Amodio.

Fastest risers this season: Fernandez and Hanyu. Abbott is regaining his form after a bad season. Maybe I should add Song too though he has had very few competitions to go by.

Verner has fallen off his PCS while Brezina has fallen off his TES such that his PCS is now higher than his TES. Kozuka is off in both TES and PCS compared to last season. I should say Verner has fallen off both scores too but he used to have PCS high enough to keep him in contention. He too had too few competitions to go by but that does not bode well at Worlds in an unfortunate season for him.